churned-up

• “The next morning, in the churned-up sideyard, Dad handed me a shovel.”

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• “MASSENA, N.Y. — Border Patrol agent Glenn Pickering slowed his rumbling snowmobile to a stop and eyed two trails of churned-up snow running down a riverbank.”

  The Huffington Post: At Northern Border, Agents Fight Drug War On Ice

• “Instead, a swath of churned-up earth at least a 150-feet wide cuts through the southern portion of the mesa and then plunges down to the beach.”

  The Huffington Post: Geri Spieler: Look Who Was at the Gate? Pat Nixon and the US/Mexico Border

• “But in this new, man-made lake in the middle of nowhere, in black, churned-up soil twenty miles from the heart ofChicago, it was sultry and still and the black water felt cool against the naked body.”

  Fictionaut: Lynda, The First

• “A huge hole had been excavated on the farther bank, a ford made for digging machines, aggregate was strewn over the greensward, concrete had been mixed by the bridge, cast-off oil-drums littered the stream, iridescence of spilt diesel glimmered across the churned-up ground.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Barmouth

• ““Those were just planted,” she told them, pointing to the black-eyed Susans, which lay flattened in the churned-up dirt.”

  Simon & Schuster: Tell us we’re home

• “They fall to the churned-up turf while the ball sails into the net.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zombies vs. Unicorns

• “Like rubs, scrapes hold a visual appeal for whitetails, and the mere sight of the churned-up dirt can bring a buck in those last few yards.”

  What You Need to Hunt Early-Season Bucks

• “Scarritt noticed recently that when the wind was coming in strong from the south, over a foamy, churned-up Gulf, something new was going on.”

  NPR: Gulf Coast Communities Investigate Oily Sea Mist

• “She ran across to it, squeezed past and stumbled into the wasteland of churned-up ground where brick kilns used to burn at 1,000°C all day and all night.”

  Simon & Schuster: Venom

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